Advanced capabilities of multi-sensor capable coordinate measuring machines are helping aerospace manufacturers better meet production and quality goals with lower cost.
The list of aircraft parts now being made with composites has grown longer than a TSA screening line. Then add in the newer metal-matrix composites (MMCs) and ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs), things like the fan in the hot zone of the engine. Composite use is growing, and methods for machining them is advancing.
Airlines stand in the face of mounting environmental criticism – the introduction of emissions taxations, and ever-increasingly ‘green-conscious’ travellers – so are electric planes the future of air travel?
Rocket engine manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne, whose space shuttle main engine was a pillar of the NASA Shuttle program, reached out to Sandvik Coromant to help machine a particularly difficult metal.
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